[nylug-talk] best thumb drive distro?

[David Rosenstrauch]

Just wondering:  anyone have suggestions for best linux distro for a 
thumb drive, with the criteria being (in order of importance):

a) size (my thumb drive is 512MB, and I still want to leave room for data)
b) ease of install
c) most system recovery utils provided

I tried to install Puppy one day when I was in a rush, but it didn't 
seem to boot for some reason.  (The installation instructions were 
pretty crappy, which I think was a contributing factor.)

I later was able to get a different distro installed (I can't recall 
which) but it didn't have reiser utils, so it wound up not being any 
help in what I was trying to do.  (Fix a corrupted Linux installation on 
a laptop that has no CD drive.)

TIA,

DR